But fulfilling the ostensible rationale for this seemingly interminable spending orgy success in the so called war on terror does not seem anywhere within reach.

To Pope Benedict, as well as other conservatives, the social and sexual revolutions of the mid 20th century may look like an orgy of libertinism.

But if the old pattern continues, and massive poverty stricken populations are left out of the political process, the country could explode in another orgy of violence.

Instead of ducking responsibility and carrying on with conventional work in Sweden, he made his way to Hungary, the scene of Hitler's last homicidal orgy against the Jews.

Russia can go down three paths democracy, which would preserve the country and provide prosperity for its citizens the dead end of Putininism or an orgy of nationalist obscurantism.

Between these two intervals, from 1992 to 2000, there was a clear reversal of the trend, notwithstanding a popular orgy of dollar declinism around the middle of that decade.

In March, Britain s leading scandal sheet, The News of the World published an exclusive front page story, under the headline F1 BOSS HAS SICK NAZI ORGY WITH 5 HOOKERS.

Even those countries that are not actively engaged in a fiscal orgy are seeing their surpluses collapse and their deficits soar, mainly in the face of falling tax revenues.

There are surely many useful activities for the government to undertake in a market economy, but a frenzied orgy of stimulus spending is not conducive to rational discussion of what they should be.

The regime headed by President Santos has refused to stop the bloody and deadly orgy which saddens the Colombian people, by not accepting a bilateral ceasefire, not even for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag waving, anthem singing, drum beating patriotism.

Wallenberg refused to ignore the threat of massacres to come. Instead of ducking responsibility and carrying on with conventional work in Sweden, he made his way to Hungary, the scene of Hitler's last homicidal orgy against the Jews.

The deficit orgy of the Reagan era is looking less like a freak political accident and more like a structural feature of Republican Party governance what the modern Republican governing coalition tends to do whenever it gains power

Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal. Then the terrorists struck in London.

But it was a remarkable institution, for many had thought that the advent of a black led government would signal the onset of an orgy of revenge and retribution against whites for all the degradations that black South Africans had suffered from colonial times to the apartheid era.